Scotch Bonnet began life as a Belgian Scotch ale, barrel aged in a rare NZ whisky barrel. It has a touch of manuka and peated smoked malt and rubbed shoulders with Craftwork's Flander's Red Bonnet barrel, which transformed the beer over time - over a year - to resemble an Oud Bruin or a Flander's old brown ale. Subtle sourness and sweetness, this beer is hard to define within narrow style parameters.